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Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

490: Extra Hot Great Christmas Cheer

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, After Shows

4.7640 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We are off this week but we bring you three great presents in the form of three Extra Extra Hot Great episodes from the club vault.

EEHG 212: Christmastalgia

Sequels to The Santa Clause and A Christmas Story have come to TV this week, so we're sharing the holiday programming of yesteryear we want to see reimagined for TV, and how.

EEHG 216: Tara Forces Everyone To Watch A Compilation Of TV Commercials From December 1992

What ads were ABC viewers subjected to during an airing of the Olsen twins-starring TV movie To Grandmother's House We Go? Thanks to YouTube, we know, and we're going to talk about them.

EEHG 219: Sarah Forces Everyone To Watch The French Chef S02.E04: Bringing In The New Year!

We'd just been talking about Snack vs. Chef with Adam on the main podcast, so we were glad he could join us for a look waaaay back at the grandmama of cooking shows, The French Chef. In this episode, filmed in black and white and aired at the end of 1963, Julia Child rants about crappy kitchenware, coughs on stuff, grosses us out with canned ham...but is her usual welcoming, soothing self, full of practical tips for last-minute appetizers (and trying valiantly not to swear on camera). Join us for a fond reminiscence about monoculture public television and midcentury decor, and Happy New Year!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🎄 Reimagining Classic Christmas TV

Lead Topic: 🤑 December 6, 1992 Commercials

Lead Topic: 👩🏻‍🍳 The French Chef S02.E04: Bringing In The New Year!

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 490 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

👼 "It's A Wonderful Plot" at TVTropes.org

🍇 A Claymation Christmas Celebration on DailyMotion.com

🪨 "Christmas In Clay" at Tedium.co

💰 "ABC TV Commercial Breaks - Dec 6th 1992 - Part One" on YouTube

👩🏻‍🍳 Watch The French Chef S02.E04 on Pluto TV (it's free!)

🍴 Watch the show Julia on HBO Max

🎥 Watch the documentary Julia, also on HBO Max

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, Rudolph, the red nose reindeer had a very shining nose, no

0:11.0

and if you ever saw him, you would even say it flow. this is the extra extra hot

0:34.8

episode episode 2, Christmas Dahlia.

0:44.3

I am poorly scheduled December 28th showing of Scrooge, David T. Cole.

0:50.1

And I'm here with Buffalo Gal, Sarah D. Bunting.

0:53.4

I will come out tonight.

0:54.8

And three sizes, two small heart, Tara Ariano.

0:58.7

Pump.

1:04.8

Welcome, patrons to the official kickoff of the holiday season.

1:08.9

Sorry, it's starting now with this topic,

1:11.1

Chris Mastalgia. Thank you so much for your support. We appreciate all of you. And we wanted to

1:16.0

tell you about this one because it's very timely. Specifically, it is a big week for reviving

1:21.5

holiday programming of yesteryear. The Santa Claus is back as a series called The Santa Claus's on Disney Plus.

1:29.5

And the sequel, A Christmas Story Story, premiered on HBO Max yesterday.

1:34.4

So I wanted to ask my fellow panelists, what old holiday fair would you like to see revived or reimagined on TV next?

1:42.4

And how?

1:43.7

Sarah, why don't you start?

1:45.7

Okay, well, I'm not totally sure this counts, but it's not like multiple generations

1:50.9

were introduced to It's a Wonderful Life in the Theater. We saw it on TV, thanks to a clerical

1:56.6

error that left it in the public domain back in the 70s. In fact, it has a permanent spot on my

2:02.2

household's DVR's plural in case one DVR breaks.

2:06.4

Sure. Kids, ask your parents. It also has a permanent spot, albeit at secondhand,

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